Conflict in Iraq

Najaf, Iraq

Iraqi Shiite mourners carry the coffin of a soldier killed in clashes with anti-government fighters June 10, 2014.

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Iraq

Kirkuk province's Kurdish governor, Najim al-Din Omar Karim, wearing a bullet-proof vest and holding a helmet in his hand, listens to a commander of the Peshmerga forces as their troops were being deployed on the main road between Kirkuk, Mosul and Baiji in northern Iraq June 12, 2014.

With jihadists from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) closing in on the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, forces from Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region took control of the disputed northern oil hub of Kirkuk to protect it from Islamist attacks, officials said.

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Aski Kalak, Iraq

A man and a child carry food at a temporary camp set up to shelter Iraqis fleeing violence in Iraq's northern Nineveh province June 12, 2014.

Thousands of people who fled Iraq's second-largest city of Mosul after it was overrun by jihadists wait in the blistering heat hoping to enter the safety of the nearby Kurdish region and furious at Baghdad's failure to help them.

As many as half a million people are thought to have fled Mosul, which was captured by ISIS, also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant or ISIL, June 10, 2014, after a spectacular assault that routed the army.

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Kirkuk, Iraq

Kirkuk province's Kurdish governor, Najim al-Din Omar Karim, wearing a bullet-proof vest and holding a helmet in his hand, listens to a commander of the Peshmerga forces as their troops were being deployed June 12, 2014.

Aski Kalak, Iraq

Aski Kalak, Iraq

An Iraqi man in a wheelchair fleeing violence in the northern Nineveh province arrives at a Kurdish checkpoint June 11, 2014.

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Aski Kalak, Iraq

An Iraqi Kurdish security guard checks the ID cards of Iraqi families fleeing violence in the northern Nineveh province as they gather at a Kurdish checkpoint June 11, 2014.

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Baghdad, Iraq

Iraqi policemen are seen on patrol inside a military base in Baghdad June 11, 2014, after the parliament received a joint request from Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and the president's office to declare a state of emergency - the procedure laid down in the constitution.

Jihadists seized the city of Mosul, Iraq's second largest city, and Nineveh province June 10, 2014, in a major blow to the government that has been apparently unable to halt the progress of the armed militants.

Aski Kalak, Iraq

Baghdad, Iraq

Iraqi policemen listen to a briefing inside a military base in the capital city of Baghdad after the parliament received a joint request from Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and the president's office to declare a state of emergency June 11, 2014.

Aski Kalak, Iraq

Kirkuk, Iraq

A medic tends to the injuries of an Iraqi man at a hospital in the northern city of Kirkuk after a roadside bomb followed by a suicide bomber who detonated an explosives-rigged truck at a police checkpoint in northern Iraq killing 21 people June 9, 2014.

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Kirkuk, Iraq

A nurse tends to the injuries of an Iraqi man at a hospital in the northern city of Kirkuk after a roadside bomb followed by a suicide bomber who detonated an explosives-rigged truck at a police checkpoint in northern Iraq killing 21 people June 9, 2014.

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Kirkuk, Iraq

Governor of Kirkuk Najm al-Din Omar Karim, center right, checks up on an injured Iraqi at a hospital in the northern city of Kirkuk after a roadside bomb followed by a suicide bomber who detonated an explosives-rigged truck at a police checkpoint in northern Iraq killing 21 people June 9, 2014.